Imagined Portraits at Crossbones

How can we commemorate people whom history has erased?

Join artist Minnie Scott to explore this question on: Wed 30th March and 6th April, Fri 8th April, Saturday 9th April 12pm-2pm at Crossbones Graveyard

A portrait painted in dark colours hangs on a tree branch by a red ribbon.


Many of the people buried at Crossbones have left no traces behind them in historical records. We don't know their names, we can't see their faces, but we know they existed. They were buried here because society considered them outcasts.


Join Minnie Scott in a project to picture the outcast dead as individuals.

Sit in the garden and see who comes to mind. Draw or write your imagined portrait and then hang it up on a branch as an act of creative commemoration.

Mary Trafford